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• James, Duke of York had already brought against him an action of " scandalum magnatum ".
• Fitton was imprisoned for scandalum magnatum, the offence of libelling a peer : he remained in prison for almost 20 years.
• His counsel had worked from an inaccurate English copy of the Latin statute of " scandalum magnatum " which had mistranslated several passages, forcing them to start the case anew.
• Cromwell argued that Denny was guilty of " scandalum magnatum ", slander against a peer of the realm, because his statement implied that Cromwell himself was seditious or had seditious tendencies.
• On 25 November 1684 Ward appeared in the exchequer court for Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, in the action of " scandalum magnatum " against John Starkey, a juryman of Cheshire, by which county he had recently been presented as a disaffected person.
• The grand jury of Cheshire having presented Macclesfield on 17 September as disaffected to the government and recommended that he should be bound over to keep the peace, Macclesfield retaliated by an action of " scandalum magnatum " against a juryman named Starkey, laying the damages at ?0, 000.
• Fitton proceeded to make a serious mistake in publishing a pamphlet directly accusing Gerard of winning the case by bribing and threatening witnesses, and including what purported to be Granger's confession that he had committed perjury . Fitton was perhaps unaware that to libel a peer was scandalum magnatum, a criminal offence.